Omitted Quotes
38 quotes by 36 authors
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and…
— Teresa of Avila
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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
— Edward Abbey
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an…
— Hilary Mantel
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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better…
— Werner Heisenberg
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that…
— Ernst Mach
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Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
— William Henry Ashley
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Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
— E. B. Farnum
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Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice…
— Dalai Lama
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In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
— Henry David Thoreau
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For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing…
— John Calvin
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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite…
— Abraham Robinson
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For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be…
— Harry S. Truman
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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
— Leo Buscaglia
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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that…
— William Thompson
Who Wrote These Omitted Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 38 Omitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: